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1772–1834

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The poet in his lone yet genial hour Gives to his eyes a magnifying power: Or rather he emancipates his eyes From the black shapeless accidents of size —

In unctuous cones of kindling coal, Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe's trim hole, His gifted ken can see Phantoms of sublimity.

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